Shenzhen-based XiaoR Geek Technology has launched SamuRoid, a Raspberry Pi 4-powered humanoid robot with 22 degrees of freedom, ROS integration, and multimodal AI for vision, voice, and natural ...

Lightsabers are easily the most iconic and popular piece of tech from "Star Wars." Who wouldn't want to own a metallic wand that can produce a three-foot beam of plasma that can cut through almost ...

Japan is stepping up efforts to compete in the humanoid robotics race, focusing on software and data. At the Humanoid Robot Expo in Tokyo, Japan’s first humanoid-focused event, a human-sized machine ...

From the depths of a grain bin, a robot is doing the dangerous work once performed by farmers. As it scurries across the grain, the Grain Weevil breaks up hardened surface crust and ridges, leveling ...

A Chinese humanoid robot completed a half marathon — even surpassing the men's world record pace. Why would a robot run a marathon? Is this just a tech show-off — or even propaganda? A marathon pushes ...

I'm always keeping a very close eye on the state of robotics. I'm equally excited and terrified by it. On one hand, I'd love to have a robot around the house so it could fold my laundry and make me ...

One of the biggest problems with the development and deployment of server-side applications in Java is figuring out how and where to host them. HTML and JavaScript applications written in React or ...

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Physical Intelligence, the two-year-old, San Francisco-based robotics startup that has quietly become one of the most closely watched AI companies in the Bay Area, published new research Thursday ...

AI expert Dr. Roman Yampolskiy claims that the restaurant-destroying dance bot and other glitches might seem funny, but could have apocalyptic consequences down the line. They may seem like scenes out ...

A humanoid robot sprinting down a track at near-athlete speeds might sound like science fiction, but it’s already happening. Chinese robotics company Unitree recently showed off its H1 humanoid robot ...